man-of-war

• “Killing American sailors on the USS Cole in the port of Aden was praiseworthy since no modern Muslim power had ever so humbled an American man-of-war.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Slaughter That Muslims Could Not Ignore

• “Then, one day, the fog lifted on the edge of a heavy wind, and there jammed down upon us a schooner, with close in her wake the cloudy funnels of a Russian man-of-war.”

  An Odyssey of the North

• “Another marine example is the Portuguese man-of-war, which can measure more than 150 feet from its air bladder to the tips of its tentacles.”

  Simon & Schuster: SuperCooperators

• “His mention at the bottom of page 19 of sailors immediately made me think of the degree of specialization in an 18th or 19th century man-of-war, compared to the very little division of labor in, for example, a trireme or a proa.”

  A Bland and Deadly Courtesy

• “So Longinus constructs his metaphor of Euripedes the man-of-words as Euripedes the man-of-war.”

  On the Sublime

• “Partly it is this notion of the sublime returning to the domestic to shatter it, as in that moment when Odysseus reveals himself, less a man-of-war as he fires his arrows out into the crowd of suitors, more a terrorist or an exile returned, as Dionysus in Thebes.”

  On the Sublime

• “Then came the man-of-war that threw shells for miles into the hills, frightening the people out of their villages and into the deeper bush.”

  MAUKI

• “As it was, the murder of the white men, of any white man, would bring a man-of-war that would kill the offenders and chop down the precious cocoanut trees.”

  MAUKI

• “And Nalasu, beyond knowing that something terrible was impending — something horribly more terrible than any foray of neighbouring salt-water tribes, which Somo, behind her walls, could easily fend off, divined that it was the long-expected punitive man-of-war.”

  CHAPTER XIX

• “First, he settled upon a blaze of lights which he knew nothing but a man-of-war could make.”

  In Yeddo Bay

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